What do you do?
What do you do when you meet a grandmother who is taking care of 16 children?
What do you do if they have no garden, half their houses don’t have roofs, the water coming in the pipes from the mountain stops during the dry season, they can’t pay for school fees, and they don’t have the clothes they need?
What do you do when a woman says that demons attack her, giving her hallucinations of people she knows, so that her friends have to spend the day with her and help her care for her children?
What do you do when a mother asks for help with her oldest children because her current husband is not their father and he will not help provide for them as his own?
What do you do when the only thing a family has to eat is a corn meal porridge and leaves they pick out of the field?
What do you do when nobody has food, and none of them have the money to start a garden and put up fences?
What do you do when it is 40 degrees at night and you know that up on the mountain are children, parents, and grandparents sleeping in mud and stick homes without the clothes and blankets they need to keep warm?
What do you do when you know these are just the beginning of the problems, when you know that just up the road and around the corner are people who are abused, neglected, hurting, and dying?
What do you do?
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I appreciate your question. I think there is a tendency to hide from these uncomfortable questions, assuming that the problem is too big for us. Thanks for facing these issues head on, and reminding us back in the states that to much is given, much is expected.
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